For Today's Crossword Puzzle A Reference That Is More Comprehensive, More Up-to-Date, and More in Touch with Today's Culture Than Any Comparable Dictionary ComprehensiveMore than 700,000 clue and answer words, with thousands of entries new to this third edition.More clue words, special categories, and subcategories than any comparable dictionary. Hundreds of extended features with in-depth coverage of people, places, and events. Authoritative and Up-to-DateExtensive coverage of popular culture, brand names, current music, modern history, and sports--all the hallmarks of the new wave of American puzzles--as well as mythology, geography, synonyms, phrases, and the other standbys of puzzledom. General vocabulary and synonyms derived from the Random House Living Dictionary Database„¢, the source of all the dictionaries published by Random House.Thoroughly revised by Nancy Schuster, for
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{Thrift find} Yet another dictionary to add to my collection (I believe this is my 8th). The design of this particular dictionary is for those who spend their mornings, coffee/bathroom breaks, or a solitary moment in their car doing the daily New York Times crossword challenge or the crossword section of the local newspaper. Every entry/word has a definition, similar words (which have the number of letters next to them incase you get lazy and don’t want to count on your fingers), and a phrase— all of which could/are clues on the crossword.